To tell or not to tell: the community wants to know about expensive anticancer drugs as a potential treatment option.

PURPOSE: Many new cancer treatments are available only at significant financial cost to the patient. We previously reported that Australian medical oncologists commonly do not discuss unsubsidized, expensive anticancer drugs (EACD) because of concern about causing distress. We argued that this posi...

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Main Authors: Mileshkin, L, Schofield, P, Jefford, M, Agalianos, E, Levine, M, Herschtal, A, Savulescu, J, Thomson, J, Zalcberg, JR
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009